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Publication details [#64539]
Oakdale, Suzanne R. 2018. Speaking through animals: Kawaiwete shamanism and metalingual play. Language & Communication 63 : 47–56.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Place, Publisher
Elsevier
Journal WWW
Annotation
Amazonian language ideologies are not essentially the reverse of “neoteric” or “Western” language ideologies. Kawaiwete shamanism employs the creative treatment of the metalingual function of language to produce a perspectival cosmos.
Non-referential communication is a considerable part of Kawaiwete (lowland Brazil) shamanism.